A web design shop in Brussels, Belgium.

Glossary of Web Design.

intro.

The World Wide Web – and its experience, cyberspace – is a realm of potentialities which parts are being labelled, sometimes by visionary thinkers, like Vannevar Bush, Douglas Englebart, Marshall Mc Luhan, but most of the time by simple people, web builders, working on a specific problem or idea and coming up with an interesting solution.

I’m building up this dictionary of Web Design for my students, maybe it can be of use to you.

A few years later, jquery has pretty much won the battle, mainly because of its ease of use, a very flexible syntax and pluggable architecture. It allows designers with no skills in javascript to easily add animations, effects and interactivity to their web pages, whereas developers can develop jquery plugins to add extra functionality and distribute their plugins, quickly making jquery a tool of choice among teams of web designers and developers.

Wordpress is a great opensource blogging platform that can easily be tweaked into a full-fledged CMS. It allows to cut down the cost of development as most website needs can be adressed by Wordpress, whilst still providing a great interface for users to update their website themselves. Wordpress has been around for ages and zillion of people master the art and craft of developing upon Wordpress, so, should i die (and I've been told I will, one day), my customers will easily find someone to take over (but not with as much talent nor flair of course - that part of me can't be replaced and will die with me - poor you! ).

the spirit.

The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural, and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.Richard Saul Wurman